Pine View Middle School students took a trip on the wild side last week in order to learn more about biodiversity, water quality, habitats and animals through hands-on experiments and observation at Cross Bar Ranch in Spring Hill. ...more

April 1, 2009

Preserving the area's character was foremost on the minds of residents who gathered to discuss their community's future. ...more

March 30, 2009

Egmont Key and 18 other parks the state threatened to close in a cost-cutting move will remain open, a member of Gov. Charlie Crist's policy team said Thursday. ...more

March 6, 2009

Endangered gopher tortoises are thriving on a Hudson-area site that scores of Beacon Point residents want the county to buy as a preserve. ...more

February 24, 2009

Over the years, the Southwest Florida Water Management District has protected more than 11,000 acres of ecosystems in the Gulf Coast area of Hernando and Pasco counties. Known as the Weekiwachee Preserve, these and other public lands in the region provide a vast network of invaluable protection to our water resources, water quality and habitat for many Florida species, including black bears. ...more

February 22, 2009

Summer O'Regan was unfazed by the task confronting her: washing windows in a lodge at Camp Wai Lani, in the Palm Harbor area. Summer was one of about 50 girls, ages 8 - 14, who took sponges, cloths and paintbrushes in hand last Saturday to spruce up the venerable Girl Scout camp. Their work included painting, cleaning, burning brush piles and changing fire alarm batteries and light bulbs. ...more

January 24, 2009

When developers approached Hillsborough County in 2006 about creating a gated community on a spit of land jutting into the Little Manatee River, environmentalists and community activists responded with e-mail blitzes, T-shirt campaigns and emotional speeches. ...more

January 21, 2009

Developers who want to turn a spit of land on the Little Manatee River into a gated community will test a new Hillsborough Planning Commission policy that some believe will allow more urban sprawl in the rural community. Little Manatee Reserve LLC wants to rezone 46 acres, mostly wetlands, from Agricultural Rural into Planned Development, then add 10 more houses on urban-sized lots to the 22 already approved on an adjacent tract. ...more

January 16, 2009

The $2.6 billion package of state budget cuts and funding swaps that lawmakers approved on Wednesday includes the following: ...more

January 15, 2009

Preschoolers may find their summer classes a bit more crowded while speeders and other traffic violators can expect to be hit with steeper fines under separate deficit-elimination plans passed Friday by the Florida House and Senate. ...more

January 10, 2009